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03 Aug 2015 8:03:43am

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In fairness to Gautama Buddha, I have to say that upon achieving 'Supreme and Ultimate Enlightenment', when his followers asked him to enlighten them, replied "Go and seek it (ie. enlightenment) yourselves!"

It was only upon their insistence that he eventually relented and formed the Sangha (the Buddhist 'Church') and gave them a body of doctrine which would lead people to enlightenment at the same time as it created an 'enlightened' state.

That the Buddhists themselves are engaged in such an intense struggle for the survival of their culture in places like Tibet suggests that it can hardly be as despotic as you would have us all believe, g hoey!